When you click a file in sublime, it shows a preview and doesn’t open a new tab each time you click a file (it can get annoying when I’m searching for something in my files, having to close all those tabs afterwards…)

+1 Specifically the preview while using the file finder. I often arrow through various similar files to find the one I want. It’s also an efficient way to explore unfamiliar code without polluting the workspace with unwanted tabs.

While I agree that this is a neat feature, I don’t believe I want the devs to put this in. Perhaps we can get more creative with our file-preview functionality instead of upright copying off of sublime.

I only say this because I’m afraid if we continue to try and make Atom like Sublime, then that’s exactly what we will end up with – another Sublime. Rather, I want for Atom to have more character than that. Atom should have file-previewing features, but maybe not in the same way that Sublime does it.

I’m definitely on board with “not just a Node.js Sublime” but an editor that takes the best ideas of all the editors we’ve worked with and then add some out-of-the-box thinking to maybe come up with something that is better than all of them. Which reminds me, I need to set aside some time to write up other thoughts I’ve had …

This one of those features that if you don’t put it in, you’re another step behind. If you get too “creative” with features just because you want to be different ( like splitting the window for preview ) then you’re just being silly. There is absolutely NO reason not to take the good ideas and use them, regardless of where they came from.

There are a lot features that are reasons I choose the editors that I do. This is one features, along with single clicking to preview/open files and folders in the menu. I would have loved to use Textmate also, but you have to double click files and folders to open them. So why should I bother with textmate when I can get the same features + the other features that I want on a different editor.